1776.] PROCEEIDNGS OF THE CONVENTION. 165

At a convention of DELEGATES for the province of Maryland, at
the city of Annapolis, on Friday the 21st June, 1776,

PRESENT,
The honorable MATTHEW TILGHMAN, Esq., President.

For St. Mary's county.	Baltimore.
Richard Barnes,	Jeremiah T. Chase.
George Plater,	Kent.
Athanasius Ford.	Robert Buchanan,
Charles.	P. Letherbury,
Robert T. Hooe,	Emory Sudler,
Joseph H. Harrison.	William Sluby.
Calvert.	Queen .Anne's.
Alexander Somerville,	James Hollyday,
Edward Gantt,	Turbutt Wright,
Patrick Sim Smith,	Richard T. Earle,
William Allein.	James Tilghman,
Prince George's.	Talbot.
Joseph Sim,	Nicholas Thomas,
Thomas Contee.	Pollard Edmondson.
Anne Arundel.	Dorchester.
Charles Carroll, barrister,	Robert Goldsborough,
Thomas Johnson, jr.	Henry Hooper,
Samuel Chase.	James Murray,
Frederick. Lower district.	W. Ennalls.
Henry Griffith.	Caroline.
Middle.	William Richardson,
Charles Beatty,	Richard Mason.
Baker Johnson.	Somerset.
Upper.	George Dasheill,
John Stull,	Gustavus Scott,
William Baird.	Peter Waters.
Harford.	Worcester.
Thomas Bond,	Peter Chaille,
Richard Dallam.	Samuel Handy,
	Joseph Dasheill.

A letter from the president of the congress, together with reso-
lutions of the 1st, 3d, and 4th of June, were laid before the con-
vention and read.

Ordered, That the same be referred to a committee, to report